After last night’s painful 14-1 defeat against the Braves, the Mets really needed to get their edge back with every game counting so much more in the compact 60 game season. They did exactly that. In the Mets’ 7-4 triumph over the Boston Red Sox, starting pitching and run support seemed to line up wonderfully with seven runs offensively and strong outings by starter Michael Wacha...
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Ask any Mets fan, and they’ll tell you that the biggest frustration of the 2019 season was the underperformance of the team’s bullpen. Dig a little deeper and they’ll tell you more specifically that it was the underperformance of Edwin Diaz. Diaz’s performance last season is not as cut and dry as many may think. It wasn’t as simple as him regressing to a bad pitcher. There were a lot of pieces...
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Despite a tough break in tonight’s 9-3 loss against the Yankees, Rick Porcello’s starting pitching was relatively solid. Over five innings, Porcello gave up three earned runs, six hits, and had three strikeouts. The game started with Gleyber Torres hitting an RBI single off of Porcello’s 91 MPH four-seam fastball, which brought in Mike Tauchman in the top of the first. Porcello...
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Before spring training got shut down in March, Dellin Betances was still fighting to reach the high 90s pitch he had before his injury. According to Tim Healy of Newsday, adding an extra four months to finish rehabbing his Achilles tendon injury, Betances really worked on finding his fastball again, the pitcher describing the season hiatus as a “blessing in disguise.” Betances went...
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According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, Mets hitting coach Chili Davis will be not be joining the team on Friday when they report to Citifield. He is working remotely from his home in Arizona due to surging cases of the COVID-19 virus in the state. While he does not have the virus, the 60-year-old has decided to work through Zoom as a safety precaution. For the time being, the onsite...
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